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Good evening once again my friends! As the ATG continues, the ponies proceed to pile up and tonight was no exception. I'm happy to see the creativity of the artists participating this year is as great as ever as I noticed many of you had fun interpreting the prompt in a variety of awesome ways.

That's the not the only thing I've noticed as I go through these pictures every night. For many pictures I take the time to read the description paired up with it and I can't help but find myself smiling. "This is my first time drawing a pony", "I've been out of practice for awhile, it's good to draw again", "I think I've improved over last year", "I'm having fun doing these prompts". All of these descriptions and so many more embody the essence of the training grounds: to improve, to try something you've never done before, to come back to something you enjoy, and, most importantly, to have fun!

Anyhow, down to brass tacks guys! Tonight we managed to accumulate an additional 207ponies bringing us up to 676ponies total. Keep up the excellent work everyone!

As for tonight's prompt we are going to see about giving you the opportunity to work on your expressions (if you haven't already) now that you've got your pony bodies moving. Expressions can be key to setting the emotional tone of a piece so I think it's good practice, for new artists and old. Thus, for tonight, I would like you all to Draw an emotional pony / Draw a pony fit to burst.

Have a great day of drawing ahead everyone! You can find the uploader for today here.Remember, our compiler is up a few hours even after this post goes up so feel free to submit your submission even though this post is up!Check on after the break for our full gallery!

Commentator:
"Spotlight Splash isn't wasting any time with Rocket Tier, as she applies her knee-driven arm / chest stretch!
However, it looks like Rocket isn't ready to submit just yet, but Spotlight knows this just beginning, as she already done some damage to his upper body by her Spotlight Back-Splash; and now she's draining the stamina away from Rocket Tier!
Can Rocket Tier power through her wrest-hold?!

(Trained professionals, it is all part of the show, folks. In most wrestling matches, performers need to recover after a big 'bump', so a 'wrest-hold' spot will be initiated. Don't try this at home.)
-Equestria Professional Wrestling

Back at home from Galacon 2017 I am very exhausted but also very happy !
So here a simple vector piece again. Maybe I will keep that style over the whole NATG.
There is a piece for the upcoming Twilight Day I have to finish, so my time is limited ...

Lo and behold, the first pony pic I ever drew, and also the first one I created digitally.
It was actually easier than expected... I just have to practice drawing legs and remember to draw cutie marks. -.-
Comments, suggestions and criticism welcome!

Her horn ached like it was about to explode. Her coat was discharging painful static into the lightning rod. Every single cell of her body screamed on agony as the hoarrowing energy caused her muscles to jolt and twitch every split second.

Day 3 of the Artist Training Grounds - Draw a Pony Warming Up / Stretching its limits.
Well Shining Armor has over stretched his limit whilst looking after his daughter Flurry Heart who has decided to try and create a fireball which is warming up her fathers tail. Moral of the story, don't leave your children unattended if they can cast fire spells.

For warming up, I decided to show some fiery fury. The result.... looks less than impressively furious. At least it's a nice almost-head-on pose?
Doing a proper head on perspective would really stretch my limits.

A nice hot bath warms a pony right up. The faucets on the bath in Feeling Pinkie Keen suggests that Sugarcube Corner has a boiler. Castle Hideous might also have hot water, but just in case, I supplied Twilight with a bath kettle.

This certainly took a while to complete. This was my first piece done with a pony laying down. I would like to give a shoutout to the people at the EquestriaDaily Discord server, who helped me with a few anatomical issues.

Another messy sketch in an attempt to practise action and composition.

Some advice:
If you're looking to set up a scene or pose, start with very quick scribbles of the whole scene, rather than spending hours on a pony's leg before you even know what the rest of the picture looks like. A few messy lines can already get the point across. This way you can experiment more and make changes or just redraw the scene quickly if you don't like it without getting too attached to it because you put too much time into it. Once you got something you like you can still decide to clean it up further.
I'm still learning this.

Yeah, like Applejack, I was going against a uphill battle to get this done. But, hey, day three. Least I made it this far But behold...Applejack struggling to get an apple uphill, stretching her limits to the max.

She isn't Captain of the Wonderbolts for nothing, and this must be how she gets her wings working for flying, but I do wonder how long she can hold on with her body weight being lifted by her own wings.